Art His 204 Chp 29: Modernism in Europe 1900 to 1945
With its open plan, emphasis on intersecting lines and planes, and restricted color scheme, Gerrit Rietveld's Schröder House represents the architectural corollary to what modern movement?
De Stijl
Which avant-garde movement was cofounded by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner?
Die Brücke (The Bridge)
Who were the founding members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider)?
Kandinsky and Marc
Which work by Pablo Picasso incorporates radically abstracted bodies and heads in the form of African masks?
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Which statement describes the depiction of space in the painting "Night" by Mark Beckmann
The space evokes a cramped, stifling room.
Which of the following best describes the way color is used in "The Turning Road" by Andre Derain
Unnatural or arbitrary colors abound, such as in the blue and red trees
Who became the director of the Bauhaus in Germany in 1919?
Walter Gropius
Many early-20th-century sculptors such as Constantin Brancusi, Barbara Hepworth, and Henry Moore championed what quality as the modern sculptor's proper goal?
Abstraction
Which architect railed against the excesses of the Art Nouveau style and wrote a 1908 polemic entitled Ornament and Crime?
Adolf Loos
What term is employed to describe the early-20th-century artists and movements that were ahead of their time and transgressed the limits of established art forms?
Avant-garde
Which of the following best describes the composition and line in these works? ("Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow" by Mondrian) ("Schroder House" by Gerrit Rietveld)
Both compositions are asymmetrical.
Which of the following best describes these two paintings? ("Homage to Bleriot" by Robert Delaunay) ("Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying" by Kazimir Malevich)
Both paintings feature abstract forms rendered in bright colors
These images show a painting and a building. How do they compare? ("Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow" by Mondrian) ("Schroder House" by Gerrit Rietveld)
Both works employ only a few colors
According to Picasso, what does the bull that appears in his monumental 1937 painting Guernica represent?
Brutality and darkness
Which statement best describes the quality of line employed in "The Turning Road" by Andre Derain
Curved lines are paired with straight lines in the composition
In his essay titled "Notes of a Painter," what did Henri Matisse describe as his primary goal as a painter in works such as Harmony in Red?
Expression
Which style is employed in Henri Matisse's intensely colored, shockingly bright painting titled Woman with the Hat?
Fauvism
Which German Expressionist artist frequently employed animals in artwork, believing them to be more pure than humans, and thus more appropriate vehicles for expressing inner truth?
Franz Marc
Who was responsible for mounting the Degenerate Art exhibition in 1937?
Hitler and the Nazis
Picasso completed his 1906-1907 portrait Gertrude Stein by incorporating features of what kind of sculpture?
Iberian
Which influential French artist was active in Paris as well as a central figure in New York Dada?
Marcel Duchamp
Which of the following describes the composition and the paint application in these paintings? ("Homage to Bleriot" by Robert Delaunay) ("Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying" by Kazimir Malevich)
Only one of the paintings contains forms with brushy, soft contours
Vera Mukhina's Worker and Collective Farm Woman (1937) conforms to what official Russian style of art, established in 1934?
Soviet Realism
The concrete tangibility of Meret Oppenheim's sculptural Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure) (Luncheon in Fur) makes it a particularly effective example of what style of art?
Surrealism
Though he shunned formal association with avant-garde groups, Paul Klee's interest in the unconscious, his employment of private symbols, and his desire to penetrate "the reality behind visible things" align him with what style?
Surrealism
Artists of which style used methods such as automatism to provoke reactions closely related to subconscious experience?
Surrealists
Which statement describes the sculpture? ("Woman Combing Her Hair" by Aleksander Archipenko)
The figure appears to raise one arm over her head.
Which of the following best describes this figure, titled Woman Combing Her Hair? (by Aleksander Archipenko)
The figure's head is indicated by an open, or negative space.
Which of the following best describes the figures in the painting "Night" by Mark Beckmann
The figures are distorted and tortured.
Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Max Beckmann were all associated with which artistic movement?
c. Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity)